ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,817, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Methods for performing wrap-around motion compensation" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing) and Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing motion compensation includes: receiving a first wrap-around motion compensation flag associated with one or more pictures, and a second wrap-around motion compensation flag associated with a sequence of pictures; and determining whether the first wrap-around motion compensation flag is equal to a first value or a sec...